The PBS docuseries, co-directed by Sarah Botstein, argues America’s birth was less a unified fight for independence than a brutal, contradictory conflict over power, land and freedom.

Units in the "American Revolutionary War" wargame maneuver across a 2-D hex-grid map of eastern North America. (Screenshot/Wargame Design Studio) Shrouded in myth and pride, the conception of the ...

Benjamin Franklin's son William was buried in London following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he was forced ...

Some 30,000 German soldiers fought for the British during the war. Contrary to popular belief, they weren't mercenaries, and not all were actually Hessians ...

The war between the United States and Iran has seesawed between open conflict and temporary lulls in hostilities several times since it began on Feb. 28, 2026, but the fighting has never truly ceased.

Investigators are probing whether Iranian hackers are behind this week's malicious cyber activity against water systems in Minnesota. If they are found to be the culprits, it would not be the first ...

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This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. When Americans discuss the Founders, ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) headquarters in Washington, D.C. with a quote from Abe Lincoln: "To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan." Tony ...

A recent series of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems has exposed vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure during the Iran war.

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From the first shots at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the American Revolutionary War reshaped the course of history. Using Google Earth, this video ...